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This book lifts up the witness of women and men in the Americas who have been murdered for their commitment to environmental justice and ecological liberation. The central claim here is that murdered environmental activists can and should be understood theologically by Christians as eco-martyrs. Therefore, their witness should challenge the church, especially in the Global North, to enter into solidarity with the ecological struggles of poor and indigenous communities not only in the Americas, but around the world.
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo is Edith B. and Arthur E. Earley Assistant Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, NC. Gandolfo earned her BA in Theology at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, her MTS in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and her PhD in theological studies at Emory University. Her published works include The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology and the co-edited volume, Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters.
